…with Gary Moss

There are an endless number of ways to ‘taste life.’ We may have all relished the experience a time or more, and yet none of us may have done the same things in the same way. In truth, we all taste life during every waking moment. But when we talk about tasting life we are usually referring only to those times that stand out from the rest; the times that are special and unique.

If I met you over coffee at Starbuck’s and were to ask you, “What is your passion in life?” Would you have an immediate and definite response? Or would you have to think long and hard before giving me an answer? Or would you not have an answer? Are you the kind of person who loves ‘everything’ in life and plays with 100% of your energy no matter what it is that you are doing? Or are you more reserved . . . participating, but waiting for the event or the other person to provide the joy to you?

You’ve probably heard it said thousands of times in your lifetime, “The more you put into something, the more you’ll get out of it.” Those are not idle words. Those are words of fact.

People who throw themselves into their work, their leisure, and their relationships get much more out of those things than others who show up with less enthusiasm and passion.

Assignment: Take a sheet of paper and fold it into thirds. Write these titles over the three columns: Things That Excite Me; Things That Are Okay; Things I Dread Take 10 or more minutes and list some things that you do in an average day/week/month in each of the three columns.

Which of the columns contains ‘JOY’? What can you do to move items from columns 2 and 3 over to column #1? Which items in columns 2 and 3 can you walk away from?

There will always be some things in life that we MUST do that are not our favorite things. But the way we choose to do those things, our attitude, can move something from column #3 to column #2 -or- from column #2 to column #1. All the power is within us and the way we choose to perceive things.

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………………………………NOW GO PLAY SOME SCRABBLE!